Abstract

The Honnold "Souvenir" album is a velvet-covered book with an embossed gilt fore-edge and a horseshoe-shaped buckle clasp. It contains numerous professional photographs of Harvey Honnold's family members, including Civil War soldiers and veterans. Most images are portraits, but some depict domesticated animals and funerary memorials.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Album of family photographs associated with sign and house painter Harvey Honnold of Olathe, Kansas. Photographs are the products of professional studios in Kansas, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee. Most are cabinet photographs, but some are tintypes, others in carte-de-visite format. One photograph is marked “H. Honnold taken on Cedar Creek west of Olathe somewhere north of Farland, HoughlandNeighborhood/Taken by Bert Honnold” Circa 1892.

Collection Historical Note

Harvey Honnold (born Ohio, 1858, died Olathe, Kansas 1906) was a house and sign painter in Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas. The Honnold family were active in the American Civil War, serving in the Ohio Infantry Regiment.